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FabCon Las Vegas keynote recording now available

April 18, 2025 by Arun Ulagaratchagan 2,516 Views

Record-Breaking Attendance The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) was a monumental success with over 6,000 attendees, 200+ breakout sessions, 20 workshops, and 70+ sponsors. Day 1 keynotes at the T-Mobile Arena featured a packed auditorium of Fabric enthusiasts ready to discover the future of Microsoft’s unified AI platform. While FabCon was an in-person only event, …

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High Concurrency mode for notebooks in pipelines (Generally Available)

High Concurrency mode for notebooks in pipelines is now generally available (GA)! This powerful feature enhances enterprise data ingestion and transformation by optimizing session sharing within one of the most widely used orchestration mechanisms. With this release, we’re also introducing Comprehensive Monitoring for High-Concurrency Spark Applications, bringing deeper visibility and control to your workloads. Key …

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Supercharge your workloads: write-optimized default Spark configurations in Microsoft Fabric

Introducing predefined Spark resource profiles in Microsoft Fabric—making it easier than ever for data engineers to optimize their compute configurations based on workload needs. Whether you’re handling read-heavy, write-heavy, or mixed workloads, Fabric now provides a property bag-based approach that streamlines Spark tuning with just a simple setting. With these new configurations, users can effortlessly …

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Supporting Database Mirroring sources behind a firewall

Database mirroring is a powerful feature in Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless data replication and high availability for critical workloads (learn more about mirroring). However, connecting to mirrored databases behind a firewall requires the right integration approach. Database Mirroring now supports firewall connectivity for Azure SQL Database, with Snowflake and Azure SQL Managed Instance coming soon, ensuring …

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Open Mirroring UI enhancements and CSV support to help you get started today

Open Mirroring: Mirroring is one of the easiest ways to get data into Fabric, it creates a copy of your data in OneLake and keeps it up to date; no ETL required. Open Mirroring empowers everyone to create their own Mirroring Source using the publicly available API that allows you to replicate data from anywhere. …

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What’s new for SQL database in Fabric?

Spring 2025 round up: performance, Developer Experience, and Data Management! Co-author:  Idris Motiwala This week, at the 2025 Fabric Conference in Las Vegas, we are unveiling a series of features for the SQL database in Fabric, including: performance enhancements, streamlined developer workflows, and improved data pipeline management. Here are the high-level features you can look …

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